Seether - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces [CD]

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June 24, 2008, 09:12 AM

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Seether's sound is too far away from what I used to know and listen to before I listened to them. The sound is rough, the vocals of Shaun Morgan scratch your brain much in the same way rough long nails scratch harder and dig deep into living human flesh. But that's the thing that got me saying from the first moment "wait a minute, this is living energy!". I've rarely ever heard such energy in all the music that I've listened to so far. It might be that, unlike the music I used to listen, this really isn't about giving out a message intentionally, present the world with one artist's art. It might simply be the expression of so much energy running into your body so hard and strong that you need a way to let it out, and as Dale Stewart said "when something bad happens the first thing you do is pick up a guitar" which is exactly the key perspective to approach "Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces".

This album is packed with twelve songs that will make you feel -whatever music you might like or not- like running onto your roof screaming your soul away to a world that, for the moments you are there, is below you. This is the highest expression I found so far of what Cameron Crowe said about music through the voice of his Almost Famous character, singer Jeff Bebe: "it's a voice that says here I am... and FUCK YOU if you can't understand me!"

Although if you really are like I was (plus a little bit more narrow minded) and you can't hear anything that doesn't sound familiar (as in a chord based sequence you probably like cause you've heard it already somewhere) I can tell you that the first single "Fake it" and, above everything the second one, "Rise Above This" haven't been chosen as singles for nothing, and will give you something to like no matter the genre you think you belong to.

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